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"Germs of Endearment": The Machinations of Edwardian Children's Fictions
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 35, 2007
- pp. 80-101
- 10.1353/chl.2007.0006
- Article
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This article examines how Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Nesbit's The Railway Children, and social-reform projects of the Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army decry mechanization and working-class decline and yet desire middle-class supervision of workers to fit them for participation in the industrial and imperial nation.